Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers
William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism and his current work in education reform, curriculum and instruction. In 1969, he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group with the intent to overthrow imperialism, that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildingsduring the 1960s and 1970s in response to US involvement in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 December 1944
CountryUnited States of America
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.
Terrorists destroy randomly.
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
I have an addiction to caffeine.
We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.